Online Photo Printing and Sharing in India: A Comparative Analysis

Online Photo printing space is quite crowded in India with more than 8 players in fray. In US, online printing has a sizeable market that is expected to touch $1 billion by 2011 (Currently at $500 million). However, in India online photo printing market is still at a nascent stage. If Internet numbers show significant improvement, this market is also set to explode.

Even though online photo printing has not caught up with the masses yet, quite a few Indian startups have already launched to get into the game early.

Here are the startups offering online printing and sharing services in India.

Picsquare is a entrepreneurial venture of 2 IITians started in late 2005: Manish Agrawal and Kartik Jain.

4 X 6 photo print cost

Rs. 2.99 / 9c ( offers available from time to time ) free 10 trial prints

Shipping charges

Rs. 36 / 100c (first 1-50)

Picture Sharing

Personal Photosite, personalized themes,

Storage

Unlimited

Uploading photos

Single and Multiple photo uploader

Prints available on

Mugs, Mousepads, Calendar, T-Shirts, greeting card, collage poster

3rd party Integration

Flickr/Picasa Integration

Photo Editing

Available

Usability*

Excellent user interface. Easy to use.

*My personal opinion

Snapfish.co.in is an Indian arm of Global Photo sharing site Snapfish.com backed by HP. It launched in late 2007.

4 X 6 photo print cost

Rs. 2.95, free 10 trial prints, Free album

Shipping charges

Rs. 44 (first 1-60)

Picture Sharing

Online albums,

Storage

Unlimited

Uploading photos

Single and Multiple photo uploader

Prints available on

Mugs, Mousepads, Calendar, T-Shirts, Posters, Key Chains

3rd party Integration

Picasa Integration

Photo Editing

Available

Usability*

Average user interface.

*My personal opinion

itasveer has been in operation since April 2006 and was set up by four IIT Delhi alumni..

4 X 6 photo print cost

Rs. 4.00, free 10 trial prints,

Shipping charges

Free Shipping above Rs. 100

Picture Sharing

Online albums,

Storage

Unlimited storage (100mb p.m. download allowed)

Uploading photos

Single and Multiple photo uploader

Prints available on

Mugs, Mousepads, Calendar, T-Shirts, , Collage Posters,

3rd party Integration

Flickr/Picasa Integration

Photo Editing

Available, Excellent Doodlepad feature

Usability*

Good user interface.

*My personal opinion

Zoom.in is the brainchild of half.com fame Sunny Balijepalli (Co-founder and CEO) launched in September 2007.

4 X 6 photo print cost

Rs. 4, free 15 trial prints

Shipping charges

Rs. 25 (flat rate)

Picture Sharing

Online albums

Storage

Unlimited

Uploading photos

Single and Multiple photo uploader

Prints available on

Mugs, Calendars, cards and books

3rd party Integration

Flickr/Picasa Integration

Photo Editing

Available

Usability*

Simple and Easy user interface.

*My personal opinion

MeraSnap is a subsidiary of Knowledgeworkz Consulting, an information management company promoted by V V Kadam and Ravi Urs

4 X 6 photo print cost

Rs. 4.40

Shipping charges

Rs. 35 (flat rate)

Picture Sharing

Online albums,

Storage

Unlimited (not sure)

Uploading photos

Single and Multiple uploader

Prints available on

Laminated photos, frames, writing pads

3rd party Integration

No 3rd party Integration available

Photo Editing

partially

Usability*

Average user interface

*My personal opinion

SnapGalaxy is subsidiary of SnapGalaxy India launched in 2006.

4 X 6 photo print cost

Rs. 4.00, free 10 trial prints,

Shipping charges

Rs. 35 (first 1-25)

Picture Sharing

Online albums, personal photofolio, photoblog features

Storage

Unlimited

Uploading photos

Single and Multiple uploader

Prints available on

Mugs, Mousepads, Calendar, greeting card, Posters,

3rd party Integration

Flickr/Picasa Integration

Photo Editing

Available

Usability*

Good User Interface

*My personal opinion

Print Camp is a subsidiary of IRS Soft – a brainchild of eminent entrepreneurs.

4 X 6 photo print cost

Rs. 5.00, free 10 trial prints,

Shipping charges

Rs. 35 (first 1-50)

Picture Sharing

Personalized Online albums, Themes

Storage

Unlimited (for 1 year)

Uploading photos

Single and Multiple uploader

Prints available on

Mugs, Calendar, T-Shirts,

3rd party Integration

No 3rd party Integration available

Photo Editing

Available

Usability*

Average

*My personal opinion

Photo hugs (launched very recently) is a subsidiary of Calitrow technologies run by Karun, Srikanth and Meher.

4 X 6 photo print cost

$ 0.15

Shipping charges

$ 2.00 (first 1-70)

Picture Sharing

Online albums

Storage

Unlimited

Uploading photos

Single and Multiple uploader

Prints available on

Mugs, Posters, T-Shirts

3rd party Integration

Not available

Photo Editing

Not available

Usability*

Simple UI

*My personal opinion

If some of the above facts are incorrect or I have missed something, do let me know

I would be interested to know what have been your experiences with these online photo print providers.

Arun Prabhudesai is founder / chief editor at trak.in. He jumped the Entrepreneurship bandwagon in early 2008 after a long 13 year stint in I.T Industry. You can follow him on twitter @trakin and Facebook.Arun’s Google+ Profile

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Photo Printing space is certainly exploding. Even online printing is catching up. After few international players coming into the picture. Once such interesting website for Invitations and personalized cards I came across was http://www.printkaro.in. I though the designs were really Interesting!

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Another new photo sharing website is http://www.myalbum.in. It is easy to use and allows free upload, storage as well as sharing. There are several other facilities like slideshow creation, embedding and album creation. It has a simple interface and photo upload is very quick. Bulk upload is allowed as well.

Send me your email id at praxonline at gmail dot com and I’ll send you a link to get 25 free prints and the best available prices for online digital photo prints. Delivered in India anywhere any quantity for Rs 25. I’ve done all the research and this is the least prices compared for all sizes except 4×6. So go ahead and get big prints for low prices. Enjoy!!

Sendmyfoto.com is the only site that offers lowest printing prices for any sized print.

The prices for 4X6 prints is a flat Rs 2.95 , and 5″ x 7″ at Rs.8.00, 6″ x 8″ at Rs. 15.00 , 8″ x 10″ for Rs. 40.00 8″ x 12″ for Rs. 45.00. Delivery is a flat Rs 30 for 50 prints. Special features on Sendmyfoto includes the ability to print a mix and match of Matt and Gloss in a single Order

http://www.sendmyfoto.com has integrated with Picasa, Facebook and Flickr and shared albums.Sendmyfoto provides unlimited free storage of photos, and photo sharing.

There sure are so many players. http://www.photoswift.com is the site i recently used after hearing from one of my friends. They charge Rs. 3.99 per print. The site seemed pretty simple and neat. And the prints were good enuf and delivered promptly as well…. which is all that matters at the end of the day i guess.

I heard 3 of them before but didn’t know that so many of them exists know. Photo printing services as such looks very promising market for Indian web companies . I want to see how they will evolve once they reach critical mass. Whether they will take the Amazon route or will start having their own brick and mortar stores in each city.